• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think you’re right for the vast majority of billionaires, but I don’t see how Taylor Swift exploiting people.

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      1 year ago

      Taylor Swift makes 2,300 times the salary of the average person in the music industry. Her team generates vast amounts of money and she gets nearly all of it.

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      1 year ago

      I am a big fan of hers. But the way she exploits people is that she sells 3-5 copies of basically the same album but there are differences in art and Color or maybe one extra song that compels some fans to actually buy all of them. And sell honestly terrible merch through her store at a premium that they will also pay gladly for. It’s market manipulation and she is winning that game. She’s very good at capitalism but she seems to treat her staff well. Well enough in proportion to her? No probably not, but in proportion to the rest of the billionaire club’s employees, yeah.

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      By sucking so much wealth out of the economy. By owning so much while there are people working three jobs to make rent. You don’t have to actively club baby seals to profit from a predatory system.

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      I’m afraid you’re pissing into the wind with this one, this crowd just wants to rage about billionaires, and nothing will get in their way.

      All cops are bastards, all rich people are bad, and nuance is dead.

      • Sop
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        1 year ago

        Not really, many people believe that wealth generated by workers should be distributed amongst those workers proportionally to their contributions. Especially in the music industry workers get very little pay for the amount of money they generate for the companies they work for. Taylor Swift also profits from this inherently exploitative construction.